G7, ou Clube dos Balhelhas e Gagás

 O festival continua. Cada cavadela, cada minhoca. Agora vão sancionar o ouro. O Gerontossauro decretou e os servos do globo - os outros 6 do G7-, fazem como as focas: batem palmas e empinam bolas no focinho (à falta de as terem no sítio devido):

«Having sparked hyperinflation in European gas prices and record energy costs around the globe with their poorly conceived and implemented Russian energy sanctions which have backfired spectacularly, allowing Moscow to reap record energy export profits and China and India to buy oil far below spot prices while leaving US motorists paying record prices at the pump, on Sunday the Biden admin alongside the G-7 announced that they will ban Russian gold imports to "further impose financial costs on Moscow for its invasion of Ukraine."»

Acontece que os russos não têm como principais clientes do seu ouro os anormais do G7 (a maior parte deles nem dinheiro tem para mandar cantar um cego, quanto mais comprar ouro)... E o principal cliente do ouro russo é... o Banco Central da Rússia:

«the biggest buyers of gold in recent years have not been G7 countries (United States, France, Canada, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom and Italy), many of whom naively sold much if not all their gold in the recent past and have refused or simply don't have the funds to restock; instead purchases have all been by developing nation central banks (like India and Turkey, and of course China which however has a habit of only revealing its true gold inventory every decade or so) who have been quietly preparing to do what Russia is doing by dedollarizing and instead allocating capital into a counterparty-free asset.»  (...)

«As for Russia, its central bank has been an aggressive buyer of gold, not seller, and if anything Biden's decision will only make the gold market the latest to follow the example of oil and bifurcate: cheaper for Russian-friends and much more expensive for Russian enemies.»

Mas a parte mais engraçada, e a minha preferida é mesmo esta:

»As for "punishing" Russia, here is a chart of the US vs Russian current account balance: guess who is at a record surplus and who is at a record deficit.

Isto já não é apenas decadência. Raios me partam, se não augura mesmo  o estado terminal dela.

(Olha, continuo inteiro... estamos lixados!)